Education

Organización Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island and Guild Hall are teaming up to offer a full day of art-inspired entertainment for families.

Art and history at the farm museum, movies for kids and teens, a Lego challenge, a Y.A. author reading, and open play time at Hub 44 are all in the family activity lineup this week.

Kristie Reddick and Jessica Honaker, a team of Cincinnati-based entomologists, are on a mission to bring arthropod education to schools around the world. They will be on the East End from Oct. 10 through 17 for a series of school assemblies and workshops through Stony Brook University’s FoodLab, a food production and agricultural education center on its Southampton campus.

On Monday morning, the start of the first full week of the 2024-25 school year, administrators at the Bridgehampton School abruptly reassigned a popular tenured teacher, Tom House, to home leave. Mr. House, who lives in Springs and is the founder of Hamptons Pride and its signature parade in East Hampton Village, has been employed by the district for 15 years.

The second installment of this column, here to recommend books to tweens and teens, is all about graphic novels -- one of my favorite genres to read.

Talk about a summer well spent: From science research to lifeguarding to volunteer work, teens on the South Fork kept themselves busy exploring their interests and making a difference in their communities.

The Amagansett School’s ongoing effort to fire its tenured principal continued this week with another six hours of testimony and questioning, with the principal’s attorneys insisting that the case should be dismissed.

Children and teens who love the performing arts have many opportunities to study and practice acting over the coming weeks and months. Plus: Hurricane swim tryouts, arts and crafts, story time in the garden, book clubs, movie screenings, and more coming up for kids and teens this week.

Andy Sabin, president of the South Fork Natural History Museum’s board of directors, will help kids of all ages learn about snapping turtles and even try to find some on Saturday at 10 a.m. at the museum. Plus: kids' movies, arts and crafts, card games, and more family-friendly fun around town.

Summer’s almost over, kids — school is right around the corner.

A disciplinary hearing ongoing since July 10, conducted by the New York State Education Department, seeks to answer the question of whether the Amagansett School principal took a red envelope containing a holiday gift card meant for another school employee.

A key policy change this year at the Springs School will be to its safety and security plan, a document that outlines its response to a real-life emergency or disaster should one arise. “Drills that are conducted during the school day with students present need to be conducted in what we’re calling a trauma-informed, developmentally-and-age-appropriate manner," the superintendent said this week.